Jessica Salazar holds her baby twins, Matias, left, and Josue, right, as they take part in a breastfeeding contest in Lima. (Karel Navarro / AP)

Jessica Salazar holds her baby twins, Matias, left, and Josue, right, as they take part in a breastfeeding contest in Lima. (Karel Navarro / AP)

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A mom who posted a photo of her 18-month-old daughter breastfeeding on Facebook is planning to flood the social media site with similar photos over the next 72 hours.

Gina Crosley-Corcoran of TheFeministBreeder.com claims on her website that Facebook deleted her photo and suspended her account for three days after she posted the photo.

"The photo broke NONE of the facebook rules for photo-sharing, yet it was deleted and I was punished anyay," she said in her blog. "This happens all the time."

Michele Zipp of The Stir highlightedCrosley-Corcoran's blog, encouraging other women to post their own breastfeeding photos on Facebook starting at 10 a.m. Friday.

"This is just wrong," she said. "Let's roar loudly so Facebook hears and makes some very needed changes and not just removes a photo because someone reported it...for no good reason, and that doesn't even violate any rules."

Facebook's community standards policy states the following under the "nudity and pornography" category: "Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and imposes limitations on the display of nudity. At the same time, we aspire to respect people's right to share content of personal importance, whether those are photos of a sculpture like Michaelangelo's David or family photos of a child breastfeeding."

In February, Facebook issued a statement clarifying this policy. A Facebook spokesperson told ZDNet that "on some occasions, breastfeeding photos contain nudity - for example and exposed breast that is not being used for feeding - and therefore violate our terms."

In the past, breastfeeding moms have had no trouble mobilizing their efforts to make breastfeeding photos, and breastfeeding in public for that matter, more acceptable.

Heather Stultz and Cece Buehner, founders of a "Respect the Breast" page on Facebook, told The Huffington Post in February that the site had pulled a total of 38 photos from their page. They circulated an online petition to draw attention to the issue.

In January, The Huffington Post reported on a Canadian mom, Emma Kwasnica, who said her account had been suspended five times due to breastfeeding photos. Kwasnica threatened a "nurse-in" at Facebook's offices, and supporters on Facebook posted photos of themselves breastfeeding in their profile photos.

Last December, Houston-area mom Michelle Hickman organized a breastfeeding flash mob at a Webster Target store after she felt she was harassed while feeding her baby in the store. The event made national headlines, spawning similar "nurse-ins" across the country, with about 50 in the Houston area alone.

Superstar Beyonce gave the movement a boost when she was seen breastfeeding her baby Blue Ivy while eating lunch at a New York restaurant with her husband, Jay-Z.

See a photo gallery of what breastfeeding looks like in the photos above.